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Faith-based funding removed

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Landmark Decision: Health & Human Services Ordered to "Vacate" Faith-based Funding of MentorKids USA
January 12, 2005

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(Madison, Wis.) The Department of Health and Human Services was ordered yesterday for the first time by a court to "vacate" funding of a faith-based group. The challenge by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, part of the first lawsuit against faith-based funding at the Cabinet level, involved a Phoenix mentoring group, an offshoot of Watergate felon Chuck Colson's prison ministry.

U.S. District Court Judge John C. Shabaz, of the Western District of Wisconsin, ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to "vacate" continued funding of MentorKids USA. MentorKids was slated to receive the final installment of its $225,000 federal grant. MentorKids USA works exclusively with Christian, churchgoing volunteers to be a "presence for Jesus" in the lives of children of incarcerated prisoners. Mentors must sign a religious mission statement that the bible is "without error in all its teachings, including creation, history, its origins and salvation."

HHS voluntarily suspended funding of the program on Dec. 16, then asked the court to dismiss the Foundation lawsuit. Shabaz found that the federal government failed to "prove there is no reasonable expectation that the wrong will be repeated" and ruled the funding unconstitutional.
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